Navy Reserve

Navy Reserve Struggling to Recruit New Sailors, Emphasizing Benefits

Chief of Navy Reserve, Commander Navy Reserve Force Vice Adm. John Mustin delivers remarks during a Naval Reserve all-hands call at the U.S. Naval Forces Europe and Africa and U.S. Sixth Fleet (NAVEUR/NAVAF/SIXHFLT) headquarters, Feb. 9, 2023. US Navy Photo

The Navy Reserve is emphasizing benefits from medical care to transferability of education benefits to commissary and exchange privileges to attract exiting active-duty sailors to sign up, Vice Adm. John Mustin said Wednesday.

The Navy Reserve...

https://news.usni.org/2023/03/01/navy-reserve-struggling-to-recruit-new-sailors-playing-up-benefits

Mobilize the Entire Navy Reserve? There’s Now an App for That

Vice Adm. John B. Mustin, Chief of Navy Reserve and Commander, Navy Reserve Force hosted the i3 Waypoints final presentations at Defense Media Activity in Ft. Meade, Md., on June 28, 2022. US Navy Reserve Photo

The Navy Reserve is developing a mobile app to make it easier for reservists to report for duty using a solution that will come in handy if it ever activates the entire 50,000-member Selected Reserve.

The idea for the app came from Lt. Cmdr. Jonathan Calhoun’s own experience mobilizing in...

https://news.usni.org/2022/07/18/mobilize-the-entire-navy-reserve-theres-now-an-app-for-that

Third Sailors Dies From COVID-19 Complications

Master-at-Arms Justin Wilson plays ‘Taps” during a burial at sea aboard the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson’s (CVN-70). US Navy Photo

A Navy Reserve sailor in Ohio died earlier this month from complications related to COVID-19, the service announced on Thursday.

Logistics Specialist 2nd Class Abdigafar Salad Warsame, 52, was assigned to Navy Operational Support Center (NOSC) Columbus, Ohio, according to a statement from the Navy Reserve. His home of record was in Georgia, according to his...

https://news.usni.org/2021/01/22/third-sailors-dies-from-covid-19-complications

Reserve Seabee Was the Second Sailor to Die From COVID-19

The Navy has identified the sailor who died from complications related to COVID-19 earlier this week.

“On Dec. 1, Builder 2nd Class Nathan Huff Bishop, 33, a U.S. Navy Reserve sailor assigned to Navy Operational Support Center (NOSC) Akron, Ohio, passed away at a local hospital in Canton, Ohio,” Cmdr. Ben Tisdale told USNI News on Thursday morning.
“The apparent cause of death was from complications associated with the coronavirus disease.”

Huff Bishop is the second sailor to die from...

https://news.usni.org/2020/12/03/reserve-seabee-was-the-second-sailor-to-die-from-covid-19

Reserve Sailor, Two Civilians Die From COVID-19 in the Last Week

A sailor plays ‘Taps.’ US Navy Photo

An Ohio-based Navy reservist and two Navy civilians have died from complications related to COVID-19 infections in the last week, the service announced today.

The sailor was assigned to Navy Operational Support Center (NOSC) in Akron and was not activated at the time of his death at an area hospital, Navy Reserve spokesman Cmdr. Ben Tisdale told USNI News.

Public health officials confirmed to the service that a Navy civilian assigned Naval Air Warfare Center...

https://news.usni.org/2020/12/02/reserve-sailor-two-civilians-die-from-covid-19-in-the-last-week

Lawmakers Argue U.S. Must Divest Legacy Systems to Keep Up With China’s Technology Growth

USS Nimitz (CVN-68) from the pier during a port visit in Duqm, Oman on Sept. 10, 2020. US Navy Photo

The co-chairs of the bipartisan congressional Future of Defense Task Force said America will lose the advanced technology race — from artificial intelligence to biotechnology — with China unless the Pentagon “makes room for new investment” by discarding legacy systems.

Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) and Jim Banks (R-Ind.) said their report to the House Armed Services Committee should “serve as a wake-up...

https://news.usni.org/2020/11/02/lawmakers-argue-u-s-must-divest-legacy-systems-to-keep-up-with-chinas-technology-growth

Navy Calling Up 1,600 Reservists to Fill in For Shipyard Workers Out for COVID-19

Norfolk Naval Shipyard workers prepare to install a 2400-pound pilgrim nut on a propeller of the aircraft carrier USS George H. W. Bush (CVN 77) on Feb. 12, 2020. George H.W. Bush is currently in Norfolk Naval Shipyard for its Docking Planned Incremental Availability (DPIA). US Navy photo.

The Navy is activating 1,629 reservists to help reduce a carrier and submarine maintenance backlog at its public shipyards that is exacerbated by COVID-19, according to Naval Sea Systems Command.

Nearly a...

https://news.usni.org/2020/06/11/navy-calling-up-1600-reservists-to-fill-in-for-shipyard-workers-out-for-covid-19